Hello Pat, Thank you for your reply. This information will go into the PTGF. " Piano Registry." Your name will be registered also. Present and future Technicians 20, 50, 100 years from now can have access to this knowledge. If someone does not preserve this information then it will be gone forever. This would be a shameful loss. The P.T.G. Foundation has now began this effort. We need help, Thank you for yours, Jack Wyatt Dallas, In a message dated 1/31/2009 1:35:24 P.M. Central Standard Time, jpdraine at gmail.com writes: Hi Jack, You've jarred some long sleeping memory cells! Way back when I was "thinking about" a career in piano technology(1974-75?), my next door neighbors left their Ahlstrom upright piano in front of their apartment building (sans top front panel). After confirming it was "free for the taking", I gathered a few friends to haul it up several steps into my apartment. I had it for about 5 years, and moved it several times as I moved around University Circle (Cleveland). When I "got serious", and attended Robert Perkins' piano technology school on the west side of Cleveland, I spent many hours at it, toiling away at the basics. Philistine that I was at the time, my frustration with "interference" from the auxiliary strings singing away in the high treble, led me to remove those strings. I passed it on to some friends when I moved back East (1979). Patrick Draine On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:23 PM, <_JWyatt1492 at aol.com_ (mailto:JWyatt1492 at aol.com) > wrote: Hello to all, C. A. Ahlstron and his Brothers did indeed make high quality Pianos. In addition to their non-blockable action they employed a self regulating device in the action to insure that there would be no blocking. A special feature of their later pianos is the incorporation of a system of auxiliary or sympathetic strings in the upper register. Experience and logic would lead us to believe it was similar to the German " Bluthner " Aliquot feature. I would appreciate any and all factual information on this "Ahlstom" feature. I need this info. for the PTG. Museum. Regards and Thanks Jack Wyatt Dallas ____________________________________ A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. _See yours in just 2 easy steps!_ (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www. freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=DecemailfooterNO6 2) **************Great Deals on Dell Laptops. Starting at $499. (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1217883258x1201191827/aol?redir=http://www.dell.com/co ntent/products/features.aspx/laptops_great_deals?c=us%26cs=19%26l=en%26s=d hs%26~ck=anavml) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090202/e4d64dac/attachment.html>
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